The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-19 00:00:00

.-..16._... Id one from Clonlara ; t tho former station is Lieut. Bondon and party, at the latter thrtt men at present. It is twenty-three miles from Ennis. It, r:11 airs be necessary to acqu a i n t y ou that on Monday ail the ncrses were at. the fair of Quin, and much worked ur2; the; day, as I said before, he bad three of them out. One us:m ws. with me at Tula, and one ill leaving but two not. surp i .oyed. I conceive that forty-six miles would be too much for the hoses in a day, and particularly when men and horses are so convenient. He asked me if I thought he was to go out of his way to enter those horses. I cannot describe the abuse he gave in the presence of many persons." In December, 1824, another gentleman from a different part of Ireland, that was described as being exceedingly peace able, thus describes the state of the peasantry. This letter was from the Sheriff of Fermanagh, and dated the 19th of December, 1826 : " Sir—Having in my hands at this moment sew.tral of the King's writs at the suit of the Very Reverend DPan Burrows, against a number of persons resiaing on the .Shoe! Lands in the barony of Glenawly, in this county, and been hitherto opposed in the execu tion of my clt. - av by large armed parties, riotously assembled toge ther, bearins llags, and otherwise apparently determined to commit a breach of the peace, should I have persisted therein, I am thus reluctantly obliged to call upon his Majesty's Government for their directions how to obtain aid in support of the civil powers herein, price to my again attempting the execution thereof. " I should not thus intrude myself on your notice, but that with out a Magistrate's warrant the police of this county will not obey any but the High Sheriff in person, or the military, unless at the moment of opposition ; neither of which would I call on except in a ease like this, where I hawa been myself a witness, and a number of affidavits have been m..7.de that both lives are likely to be endan gered, and a breach et': the peace apprehended, should I go to those lands unprotected. " Your advice ; and immediate attention to this matter, will ma terially faciliticte me in my duty in this behalf, as also remove the awkward tnanner I am placed in as to my power of calling OTT the police srchout a magistrate's warrant (which cannot at all times be proi:ured), or the High Sheriff attending in person. And I am, Sir," &c. Tke answer to this letter was to this effect, from Mr. Gregory : " The men will, on no account, interfere in the execution of any writ, decree, or civil order, or in driving for rent, tithes, or taxes, unless called out by a Magistrate, or the High or Sil'o-sheriff in person, and then they will only consider it their d . - . 4 those perso ns i n t h e execut i on of their office." Acting on this authority, th e S u b- s h er iff to protect - • went out on the 19th of January, and met with the same 'nostile resistance ; an ac count of which he thus gives. The Hon. and Learned Mem bc-r then read the ric-,,ount.. In reply to this statement, Chief - Baron Joy wrote. to 'gay that " the new constabulary force might be eir.ployea in arresting any person who bad been guilty of assaulting the Sheriff in the execution of his duty, but that as to assisting the Sheriff in the execution of writs, that was not to be required--( Hear, bear)—except in their character of part of the posse comitatus."—(Hear, hear.) It was all very well to talk of their being called out as part of the posse comitatus ; but was ever a case heard of in which a party was attached for refusing to serve under such circum stances. He would show that in 1826 the G overnment, act i ng under the au th or i ty o f Chic': Baron Joy, were of opinion that the constabulary force ought not to be used in this way. In 1826, a constoLle who refused to execute one of these warrants was fined 6 1 .. for cor.tempt. The Government %las applied to on the sc:oject, and Mr. Goulburn wrote the following letter, directi ng the remission of this fine : "Dn e, ct. 3 18. " Stu—l h ave rece i ve d your let übli C astl ter of the 1 19th instant relative to the fine of 51. imposed upon Chief-constable Giveen for not ex ecuting a warrant issued under the order of the magistrates as sembled at Downpatrick Sessions. And upon consideration of the circumstances, I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you that his Excellency h.z.s been pleased to remit the fine, and desires that the amosvat shall not be stopped from Mr. Giveen.— I am, &c., (Signed) " Major D'Arcy, Belfast." (Hear, }'.ear, hear.) Now, whether that order was right or wrong, they were not here to discuss ; but it was ra the:- unfair to accuse other persons of setting up themselves against the laws of the land, because in conformity with the first law authority in the land they had not held this person to be guilty of contempt.—(Hear.) He would go through many other cases up to the time when the Court of Exche quer pronounced against this decision ; to which he would Challenge all the Courts in England and Ireland to produce a similar. For by that decision every soldier in Ireland— every officer on parade—might be called upon to break into houses and arrest persons, and seize property in this process. The process, perhaps, might be an obsolete one, but it was still in existence, and had been executed. Before he sat down he had a few observations to make up' - ;0 these pro ceedings in the Court of Exchequer. It %VP', In his opinion, of very littl e i m p or t ance w h ether these b ; .Yls had been filed by the Lay Association or not ; it was vet,little matter whether only six attorneys had filed neat six hundred of these bills; and whether, so common were they, that they had been made out upon lithographed for . nr,, instead of writt en i n th e or di nary way. Certain it was, as; he could show, that the greater part of them were for surns under two pounds, and that many of them were for _sums 'under a couple of shillings—(Hear, hear); yet in ell these cases the costs must, upon a fair cal culation, amou'at to upwards of ninety pounds.--( Hear, hear.) To prove *As, Ile would refer to two cases in particular; one of these, Vas, a claim of 19/. odd, the amount of taxed costs was 931. 17s. ; in the other, for a claim of 201. 18s., the taxed costs were 941. 4s. 2d.--( Hear, hear.) Now in the Assistant- Bayri'..ter's Court, any sum under 201. mi g ht be recovered by eivi' p rocess, and execution speedily directed to the sheriff, who could command the military and police against both per sons and goods. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con cluded by trusting the House would accede to the motion, and sat down amidst considerable cheering. Mr. SHAW said, it was suite clear that the Attorney-Ge neral for Ireland's object had been to impugn the judicial au thority and integrity of one of the King's Judges in Ireland. —( Hear, hear.) Ile Hon. and Learned Member then went on to complain, that the motion bad been altered from that of which notice had been given; his Hon. and Learned Friend, the member for Bandon, therefore, came down totally unpre pared to meet the question, whilst the Hon. and Learned At torney-General for Ireland came down armed at all points— ( Hea::, hear)—being fully prepared for what must come, and ma. - Cie the motion the medium of attack upOn one of the King's Judges in Ireland. This attack upon the Learned Chief Baron was in an endeavour to prove that he had given a judg ment as a Judge inconsistent with the opinion expressed by hire on the same case as a lawyer. He hoped, still, however, that the judges of the land would not be frightened from their path of independent rectitude by the strictures of the King's Attorney-General, cheered on as he was by the members of his Majesty's Government in that House.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to the Lay Association, he believed he could declare that that society had not acted in they way alluded to. They bad not been concerned in originating any of these Bills in the Court of Exchequer: they had merely been employed to look into those already engaged upon for the purpose of seeing that none but the best cases should be 'persevered in. The CHANCELLOR of ti:, EXCHEQUER com menced by replying to his Ri.;ht Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney-General for T;.eland, for himself, and for the rest of his Friends on that, se'le of the House, the charge of unfairly altering the form OC. 'the present motion. Until the Hon. and Learned Gentle:ar,n had concluded his speech he was quite unprepared for such an alteration.—(Hear.) The Right Hon. and r.itarned Gentleman complained that his Right Hon. and Lerint(l Friend had come armed at all points.—( Hear.) True % he was so—( Hear)—and those points had evidently been Hear.) They had inflicted wounds which would not }..,e lightly thought of.—( Cheers.) If his Right Hon. and Learned Friend had not come down so prepared, he might have been led astray upon a wild goose chase, urged on by the in vectives of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite against Government, for presuming to use their authority in order to overpower that of a Judge in his court. The Hon. and Learned Member For De'Jlin University said that it was a new position for an Attorney-General to impugn the integrity and authority of a :Judge. But he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) denir,d that his Right Hon. Friend bad done so on the present occasion.—( Cries of " Oh, oh," and " Hear.") In every par er, in every speech proceeding from their politi cal adversesies, his Majesty's Government had been charged with, eieuer by fraud or artifice, withholding from the King's subjects the protection to which they were entitled. And we-re they to give no answer to such accusations ? They had done no more than what the law of the land authorized ; they lead done no more than they were justified in doing by the fauthority of previous law-advisers of the Crown. He denied that the letters which had been read by his Honourable and Learned Friend were private ; they were public documents ; they contained the opinion of the law-officers of the Crown, that except in case of an actual breach of the peace the police force ought not to be employed. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had taken an active part in tile discussions on the Constabulary Bill. In the Committee a clause was intro duced providing that except in eP.:se of an actual breach of the peace the public force shoe.lit not be employed. In 1827 a clause w as introduced into the Bill, i n • which it was particu'Arly pointed out that the police force should not be employed in the collection of tithes, in the levying of rents, in the imposing of fines or penalties under the revenue or game laws. That a writ of rebellion was a civil, and not 'a criminal process, was evident from the fact that the party r_ould be discharged under the Insolvent Act. In that case, therefore, the police could not be resorted to. There was no right on the part even of the Bench itself so to re,ort to it. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman spoke of the danger of destroying public confidence in the adminis. tration of justice. But while the public owed much to the Bench, the Bench "owed something to the constituted au thorities.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He protested against its being held out to the people that the Government, from the highest to :he lowest functionary in the state, were in a conspiracy to etefeat the law.—( Hear, hear.) Such a practice was fatal to *lithe best interests of society. He apologised to the House for having troubled them so long. He would not have inter fered in the discussion at all, but that the Hon. and Learned Member for the University of Dublin dared any Member of his I Slajesty's Government to come forward.—( Hear, hear. ) Lord 11ORPETH would trouble the House with safely but very few words, for two reasons; the fi rst t h a t h e might safely leave the legal points of the case in the hands of his Hon. and Learned rriend ; and in the second place, because the cases were still pending in a c our t o f l a w. He begged it t o be dis tinctly understood that be did not shrink from any of the con sequences o f w h at had taken lace.—'Hear, hear.) _lie orders were his.—( H ear, bear.) Let any proceeding be pointed against him. Whatever the amount of the penalty which he might have incurred, he had the consolation, how ever, of reflecting that he had not been misled but on great au thority. His authorities for this assertion were neither volu minous nor private ; and, therefore, with the permission of the House be would read them. The Noble Lord here read three documents. The first was an actual commission of rebellion issued by Exchequer in a tithe case, as follows " HENRY GOULBURN " William the Fourth, by the Grace of God of the United King dom of Great Britan and Ireland, King, defender of the faith and so forth, to Thomas Williams, Henry Ogle, John Sheridan, greet ing, because, by public proclamation, by the sheriff of the county of Meath, in divers places of the said county, by virtue of our writ to him directed, it was commanded that Clarke, on the peril of his allegiance, to appear before the *Ceiba of . olir Eke iegt:Er ht. the King's c.iurts in Dublin, at a certain day pissed yht manifestly contemned our tornmands therein, therefore we com mand yeu, that you omit not, by reason of any liberty, but to enter the sane, and attach the taiel Hugh Clarke Wheretievar shall be found within bur kingdom bf Ireland, l'elfel and con temner of our laws, so that you or 61 you have hi s b o d y before the Barons of the Ekelliver, at the King's courts, D gin, on Monday the 13th day of Aptil next Coining) k° all!'`%r those things which then and there shall bt td‘;`7;:ieu against him, and what our :aid court s h a ll or d er ; farther to do and r tvr iv t h e r. we also command th:ai all and singular our sheriffs, mph, baiii6s, and 41 ohicers and liege subjects whatsoever, firmly enjoining t S-em that to yon and each of you, in the execution hereof, they be aiding and assisting. In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent. " Witness, Henry Joy, Esq ;Chief Baron, Jan. " J. #ARRON%" " R• W. Osborne, attorney " The next was a copy of a letter from the Magistrates in Petty Sessions, County Meath, to Sir WI:). Gossett, dated 23d March, 1835, viz. " Navan Petty Session s March 40835. " Sir—Ws WE been this dad• applied to in Session o direct the Politt to assist in the execution of a writ, the copy of which we intlose ; not being certain of our jurisdiction in the matter, we are anxious to be directed as to the course we should pursue. " We have, &c., (Signed) " P. R METGE, J.P. • " R. P. 0. HAMILTON, J,F, " "Lient,-Colonel Sir Wm. Gossett." He had some difficulty in reading the reply, because It pro. seeded from a gentleman who, although he ( Lord Murpeth) could not say that he was not present, was nevertheless not in a situation to answer for himself. It was as follows t "'Dublin Castle, 26th March, 163.5. " Gcsmcm ax—l have received and laid before !Ile Lord-Lieu. tenant your letter of the 23d instant, enck-fmg the copy of a wr it, been applied t o i n sess i ons to in the execution of which you 117:,, e direct the police to assist, and requesti ng t o b e i nstructed as to the sour 'pursue. not bei ng certa i n o f your j urisdiction in se you the matter, should In reply, I am to acquaint you that the law adviser does ":iot think that the police should be employed to execute process of this nature, nor have you any jurisdiction to direct them to do so.—(lmmense cheering.) If their interference be necessary to, preserve the public peace, a proper case must be made out by affidavits. " I have, !Ice., ( - d) " The Ma g i s t rates at Petit Sessi Signe ons, Navatn" —Here he felt that he might safely leave the case.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that he had acted upon the advice of Chief Baron Joy; he was sure that he had acted after the ex ample of the Earl of Haddltigton.—(Hear.) After a few worth from Mr. SCARLET; Mr. SHE IL, in reply, owed it, in the first place, to himself, to state such facts as would at once relieve him from the impu tation of having unexpectedly, and contrary to a previous inti mation given by him, moved, in addition to what appeared on the face of the paper, for a return of the amount of Bills filed since August last for the recovery of tithes.—(Hear, hear.) He ( Mr. Sh e il) h a d on a f ormer occasion moved, without no tice, for a return of the number of such Bills, and also moved for the names of the attorneys by whom they had been filed. On that occasion the Recorder for the City of Dublin objected to the motion, because the names of attorneys ought not, as he alledged, to be included, He S . Mr. Shell) th e n w ithd rew hi s motion, and gave not i ce o f it. He afterwards allowed it to drop in consequence of the pressure of other business which preceded it, and told the Learned Sergeant opposite, and the Member for the University of Dublin, that he should not move it in their absence. Accordingly, in their presence, he had added the motion of which a notice had been originally given, and he left out the names of the attorneys, because their production had been at first objected to.—( Hear, hear.) Nothing could be more remote from his intention than to take the gentlemen opposite by surprise, and it was obvious that taken by sur prise they had not been. The Learned Sergeant (the Mem ber for Bandon) had come with at least the materials of a speech, and with a private letter of his (Mr. Shell's) in his pockets—( Cheers.) The Learned Sergeant who complained that he had not had notice, never gave him ( Mr. Sheil) no tice of his purpose to use that letter. He (Mr. Shell) had a few moments before the debate met the Learned Sergeant above stairs, vino had entered into conversation with him, and had him where he (Mr. S.) could procure a copy of the nr ; :ated Report of the case of " Knox v. Gavin ;" and yet the Learned Sergeant, having his private letter in his pocket, never told him that he meant to avail himself of it in the de bate.—(Loud cheers.) It was idle for the Learned Sergeant to suggest that the letter was not private, because it had been referred to in a bill filed against him (Mr. Sheil). By whom was that bill signed ? Let the House mark the fact : the bill adverted to his letter, and was signed by the Learned Ser. geant himself.—(Cheers.) So that the Learned Sergeant first has his letter laid before him in his study,.refers to it in his professional capacity in a pleading, and then having thus divested it of its character of privacy, reads a part only of the letter in his Parliamentary capacity, and declines, when called or,, to read the rest.—( Hear, hear.) This was scarcely fair dealing, on the part of the Learned Sergeant.—( Hear.) Mr. Orphen is the solicitor to the Lay Association—and I never stated that Mr. Smith acted in that official capa city ; but I do believe that Mr. Smith, under the superintendence, and with' the co-operation of the Society, has filed a great number of bills. Ido not blame - him for so doing ; I acquit him of every charge ; and only refer to the number of bills filed as evidence of the frightful scenes of litigation which have been got up in connection with political contests in Ireland. As fo any letter, I will without hesita tion read the entire of it to the House; and, indeed, as an extract has been employed, the House owe it to common jus tice that the whole should be read. It is addressed to the Reverend Mr. Thompson, the clergyman of the parish in Tipperary where I reside, and I cannot help saying that I did not think it necessary to mark "private and confidential" as an inducement to him not to furnish it for such purposes as those to which it has been applied. But let the House judge, without any comment from me, how far the rules which regu late private intercourse have been observed. The letter is in these words : ~ W. COSSET. " To the Rev. Mr. Thompson. " Long Orchard, Oct. 12, 1835. "My dear Sir—lt is perfectly true that I wrote to you that in the event of the Government expressing a determination to abide by Lord Stanley's measure, I could not complain if you adopted proceedings against me. " The Bill proposed last Session had been rejected by the Lords, but that some such adjustment of the unfortunate tithe question will be brought forward at the commencement of next Session (whatever party be in power) seems obvions. The Government have not intimated any intention to retain Lord Stanley's plan ; a great change is inevitable. Under these circumstances, I submit to your consideration whether the delay of a few months on the part of the clergy be not more advisable than the immediate exercise of their existing legal right to tithes. lam not insensible to the hard ship of their condition produced by the contentions of the great rival parties in the State ; but, on the other hand, by what possi ble means can those who pay tithes at this juncture succeed in re covering them from their own tenants? " Parliament must meet early in February, and the question must then be settled ; no legal proceedings could be effectual be fore that reriod. It will be for you to decide how far it will be advisable to involve yourself and me in litigation. injurious to both of us, when the settlement of all demands by the Legislature is so close at hand. " At the same time It.hink it but justice to add, that in the event of your proceeding against me, I shall not regard such a step upon your part, as a severe or unjustifiable one; although being myself unable to collect tithes, and being placed in peculiar political cir cumstances, I indulge in the hope that you will not consider it un reasonable that I should have recourse to such expedients of pro crastination as the law supplies. " You must be aware that as Member for the county Tipperary, I must elect between the payment of tithes and the loss of my seat. ; perhaps this consideration may induce you to delay for some months longer. I really do not know to what extent I am liable to your de mands : most of the leases were executed before Lord Stanley's Act; and property in your parish, has been so subdivided, that to determine who are, and who are not liable, would be a task of some difficulty. " Whatever course you adopt, I trust that no interruption will take place in the kindly feeling that ought to exist between neigh bours, and that our legal differences will not be embittered by any personal animosity. " Yours, very truly, "R. L. SHEIL. Sir, I own every sentiment in this letter not meant for the public eye—the effusion of sincerity, and the result of no un kindly feeling.—( Cheers ) It is free, I hope, of all political and sectarian animosity, and exempt from that bitterness Vi hich, when our moments of public contention are past, ought surely, in private life, to be laid aside.—( Loud cheers.) Ido not want to deprive Mr. Thompson of his tithes : I only requested him to delay his proceedings for a few months, and I do this with the courtesy that becomes me in addressing myself to a gentleman, for who'se privations I felt the sympathy which I expressed. But I turn to the Learned Recorder. He defends, and most appropriately, the purity of the Bench. I did not attack its integrity. I 'said that, under the influence of strong feelings, men the most conscientious might be hurried into a mistake. I acquitted all parties, judges, solicitors, attor neys, of all moral blame. But it is delightful to listen to the Learned Recorder's vindication of his brother Judges. He is himself so immaculate, so free from all factious emotion, so much above all partizanship, that he cannot even conceive how a Judge can be an agitator—( Loud cheers)—how a man filling that high and sacred station can descend to the ex citement of popular passions, enlist himself with a party, and be placed by a faction, at its head..—( Cheers.) The Learned Recorder, as I have thus conferred on him the mced of my respectful panegyric —(Laughter)—will, I hope, pardon me if I presume to suggest to him that it would have been as well if his own name had not appeared as a member of the Lay Association for levying tithes. What ! a judge before whom a tithe case may be tried in which the Lay Association might institute the proceedings. Mr. SHAW—N o tithe case can come before me. Mr. S HEIL—The Recorder is surely mistaken. He is imperfectly acquainted with the extent of his jurisdiction, al though he has so lively a sense of his moral judicial duties. He can try a civil bill for tithes, and I challenge him to deny it. Will it be said that between the Orange Society and the Lay Association there is no communion and no sympathy ? The Orangemen are generally frank, direct, and candid. To g eisv e he S roy o n c ev i i e cc t oe y uel l xdc a ae m ppptl d yh i disposed op os otch e ri d e smy to a; ‘n, a e p p p i l t y a p A io rb o u n t h c n h o a t r 's te e r p s i i t t t a h le) has ( O n (I lion cannot claim thi s exemption, andbpuatythwe L what a y R o t h s e o f c o i v a : milt calls the unconscious homage that vice pays to virtue.— (Cheers.) Mr. Sergeant JACKSON explained. Return ordered. HIGH SHERIFFS OF IRELAND. Colonel PERCEVAL moved the following Return : " Return of the several persons recommended by the Judges to fill the office of High Sheriff in the respective counties of Ireland, for the present year; and also of those persons who have actually been appointed ; specifying those (if any) who received the letter of appointment, and were subsequently set aside, contrary to the course."—Granted. T StTN 3 LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, Md. cAitL „. dw ELEOTIbg. . M. WALLACE. thoighi it right to postpone his trtotiori for an :address to _his Misiesty,. callinei for a Coir.iiiiiSifit to ptloeetil to . C.,:arlow ; in order to inquire into the facts stated in m.. 'goes petition; until the Committee, which hid been ap. pointed the .etlivr night should hdfe dosed it§ prkeetlinei. Culenel f3III.JRN efit'nettly entreated the Hon. Member eltiAlt& io bring forward his motion on an early day, because toe matter to which it referred seriously and deeply affected him, as well as deeply interested the eottoty %ditch he had the hutilto to re . pteSent in that House and the whole tontititi-- (Loud cries of " Hear," from the Opposition.) I demand that this should be done, both in regard to my own private feeling= tth4ll-li AkE 1t sbggested that there was no motion be fore the House:. -- ejo;;FiclitTtN—All I ask is; thit sii "(filly Bpiibflunity may be afF)rdcd me clearing eliaritttet before this 1 - lOuse and the public Loud tries of " Hear, hear. Mr, WALLACE assured the Hon. Member that lie had ho vq_wsonal motive in twin:int before the House. lie !lad a milzliettitY to perform, which he considered himself hotind to fulfil. Ile promised the H. ti' Meibbef, however, that he would seriously otZtder the appeal just made to him.--( Hear.) CON4TAIMARY FORCE—IItgLAND. 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ENTIRELY NOVEL MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, On a Plan never before attempted in any country, THIS EVENING, February the 19th. The Lessee has the honour of announcing that, encouraged by the unprecedented success of the Performances on the 30th of January, he is determined to spare no expense in presenting the Public with a series of similar ones during the ensuing Lent; and with that view he has, at an enormous outlay, and on a scale of unprecedented magnificence, pre pared an Entertainment of the most diversified and highly interesting character called HISTORICAL RECORDS of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, From the Ancient Greeks down to the Present Time. Embracing specimens of the various Schools of the most celebrated Masters, Foreign and English, presented in a chronological order, and forming a practical illustration of THE HISTORY OF MUSIC During a Period of Two Thousand Five Hundred Years. In order to give characteristic effect to this Performance each Com position will be given, from the most authentic Documents, in its ori ginal state and language, whereby the Rise and Progress of Music will be in all its branches fully developed. The following eminent Vocal and Instrumental Performers are already engaged :—Madame Caradori Allan, Miss K. Robson (her first appear ance), Miss Shirreff, and Mrs. H. R. Bishop ; Mr. Braham, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Henry, Mr. 11. R. Allen and Herr Lutgen (their first appearance on the English Stage), Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. Seguin, Mr. Giubelei, Mr. M. W. Batfe, Mrs. Bridgman, Mr. Lindley, Signor Dra. gonetti, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Willman, and Mr. G. Cooke. . - Director, Mr. Bochsa ; Conductor, Mr. T. Cooke; Leader, Mr, Mori ; Chorus Master, Mr. J. T. Harris. COMMITTEES. The following Gentlemen compose the Committees ap pointed lttst night : RECORD CommissioN—Mr. C. Buller, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. C. Wynn, Mr. C. Villiers, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Jervis, Mr. Pusey, Sir M. M. Ridley, Sir C. Lemon, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, Sir W. Molesworth, Sir G. Clerk, Dr. Bowring. PRISONERS COUNCIL BILL.—Mr. Ewart, Sir E. Wilmot, Sir G. Strickland, Mr. Aglionby, Sir W. Rae, Mr, Maurice O'Connell, Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Pryme, Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Hogg, Mr, Sergeant Jackson, Mr. Attorney- General, Mr. Solicitor-General, Mr. Sergeant Woulfe. RAILWAYS. The London and Gravesend, and the Hayle Railway Bills, were presented and read a first time. Petitions for Bills for the Stockport and Manchester-- -Dundee and Arbroath—and Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff Rail ways, were reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in. Petitions for the Gartsherrie and Coatbridge--Neweastle aad North Shields—Brandling—Deptford—Preston and Long ridge—Manchester and Leeds—. London and Dover—and Gateshead and Monkwearmouth Railways, were referred to the Representatives of the Districts through which the respec tive Railways pass. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. In the Loans' last night, after some discussion, in the course of which Lord Melbourne declared the determination of the Government not to tamper with the currency, Lord Wynford obtained his appointment of a Committee to inquire into the causes of agricultural distress. In reference to the case of the twenty seven Englishmen seized in Spain, and sent on board ship, Lord Melbourne, in reply to the Marquis of Londonderry, said that the papers sought should be pro duced. Lord Holland presented a petition from a B apt i st congregation in Nottingham, praying relief. In the COMMONS Colonel Anson took the oaths and his seat for Stoke-upon-Trent. Sir W. Geary brought in the Bill for making a railway from Greenwich to Gravesend. The Islington Cattle-market Bill was referred to a Committee. Dr. Bowring complained of a misrepresentation which app eare d i n a Tory paper. On the presentation of a petition by Mr. Wakley, on the subject of the proposed charter fora Metropolitan Unive rsity, Mr. Tooke said that there was considerable misapprehension on this subject. The powers granted by the Charter would not be limited to the two schools. The Examiners would have authority for including other schools. Mr. S. Crawford pre sented a petition from the Rev. Mr. Hancock, for the abolition of tithes. Lord Morpeth obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law regarding the ap pointment, &c., of the Constabulary force of Ireland. Mr. Ward's resolutions relative to the mode of taking divisions of the House were agreed to. Lord D. Stuart postponed his motion for papers respecting Russia, Turkey, and Poland, in consequence of the lateness of the hour. There was an ex tended and interesting discussion on Mr. Shiel's motion re specting the Irish Lay Association. The Select Committee eventually was granted. Lord Morpeth gave notice that on the 25th instant, he would move for leave to bring in the Tithes (Ireland) Bill. The motion fora commission-to Carlow was deferred. A return relative to the appointment of sheriffs was ordered. CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE The Committee appointed to enquire into the conduct of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., with respect to the Election for the County of Carlow, met this morning, at twelve o'clock. They sat for about an hour with closed doors, and then adjourned till Monday, the 29th inst. We understand, that they have re solved that the doors shall remain closed during the enquiry to all, except Members of Parliament. GLASGOW ELECTION. TRIUMPH OF REFORM. The election has terminated in favour of Lord William Ben tinck. At the close of the poll, on Tuesday, the numbers were— For Lord William Bentinck Mr. Mills 903 Majority in favour of his Lordship -1,092 Very little excitement prevailed in the City during the day ; the great body of Reformers, scarcely looking upon the elec tion as a contested one at all, put themselves to little or no trouble in canvassing. The few supporters of the defeated candidate, however, stung to exertion by a sense of weakness, were indefatigable in their labours, and, particularly in Gor bals, strove hard to swell the list of their retainers. But in vain. A great body of the electors have not polled. Many of the Reformers seem to have considered it unnecessary to vote ; while the Tories, as a party, though many of their ad herents supported Mr. Mills, did not openly take any part in the election. Mr. Mills has been defeated, but the precious squad who in. duced him to come forward have gained their ends. They have made the young man bleed.—Glasgow Argus. It is a fact worth mentioning, that scarcely more than half of the Constituency voted yesterday. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. I9.—At a congregation held on Wednes day last, the following degrees were conferred : HONORARY MASTERS OF ARTS. Lord C. A. Hervey, Trinity College, fifth son of the Mar quis of Bristol ; Hon. T. R. Keppel, Downing College, fifth son of the Earl of Albemarle; Hon. P. Y. Saville, Trinity College, third son of the Earl of Mexborough. HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 5, 1836. rI N approach of the 24th INSTANT, HEINE kf BROTHERS, Contractors for the GREAT LOTTERIES of the State of Hamburg, beg to state that Tickets of the SIXTY SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, WAR RANTED UNDRAWN, will sell between the 12th and 23d instant, at Bancomarks 200, or 151., say Fifteen Pounds. The largest Prize of Bancomarks 100,000 net, will most probably be drawn on the 24th instant, it being a Premium for the FIRST DRAWN Prize of Bancomarks One Thousand. BACHELORS OF ARTS. ...... W. H. Herring, Trinity College ; R. - L. Surtees, ditto; E. J. Walmesley, St. John's College ; F. E. Tuson, ditto ; Chapman, St. Peter's College • F. Halhed, ditto; J. W. Cha loncr, Magdalene College ; W. L. A. Parker, ditto ; W. F. Smithe, ditto; M. Hutton, Catherine Hall ; J. Bluett, Queen's College; T. Sedger, ditto; E. W. Foottil, Emmanuel Col lege ; A. Fullerton, ditto. At the same congregation the following graces passed the senate I--To affix the seal to the assent of the University to the Manchester and Cheshire Junction Railway passing through the Hulse estate; to grant to the late Vice-Chancellor from the Common Chest the balance (viz. 1641. 18s. WO due to him from the Botanic Garden account, for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1835 ; to authorize the late Vice-Chancellor to employ a part (viz 5,0001.) of the balance due to the Fitz William Fund in the purchase of Exchequer Bills; to appoint Sir W. Follett one of the University Counsel in the room of of Lord Langdale, now Master of the Rolls ; to allow Mr. Crool (Hebrew Teacher) 301. out of the University Chest in addition to his annual salary ; to confer the degree of AI.A. on the Rev. H. Cotterill, of St. John's College, by Royal Mandate. WAGER EXTRAORDINARY.—Of all the wagers recorded in the annals of whimsicality, that was unquestion ably the most singular which was laid by a certain lady dis tinguished for fashion and beauty : the terms of it being that , she would induce her stubtiffim Lord, though separated from her, to come back and beg to be re-united. How be came, and how he went again—how she won her wager, while he lost his time and patience, form a delicious tale of the "wild and wonderful." Its incidents, we understand, are to be re lated in the " Court Journal" of to-morrow, among other " especial secrets," piquant anecdotes, and mysterions whispers. The Missiskoui Standard records the inveiglement of Miss Mary Elvira Spoon by Mr. Henry Bowl ! Old mar vels are enacted anew. The dish runs away with the spoon...— Montreal Gazette. _ Five hundred French theatrical works, of which 40 are tragedies, 50 dramas, 30 melodramas, 100 comedies, and 280 vaudevilles, have just been sent, by order of the Sul tan, to the library of the Seraglio at Constantinople._ Paris Advertiser. _ - SIR ANDREW AGNEW.—Verily, Saint Agnew has perpetrated a genuine bit of wisdom at last 1 The wags may roast his Saintship as theY please; but we will maintain, in his defence, that he could not have chosen a more appro priate day for bringing forward his renewed motion in the House for the better observance of the Load's-day, than the first of April. 0 the everlasting Gowke 1 HOLBORN PROPOSED VIADUCT.—A few copies of the Report on the Viaduct from Fetter-lane to the Old Bailey according to the design of Francis Wishhaw, Civil En gineer, M. I. C. E., may be had at the publisher's, Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. A Second Report may shortly be expected. BEER SHOPS. —Last week a constable at Under cliff, in the Isle of Wight, who had been called in to quell one of the nightly uproars at a beer shop in his district, discovered in the morning that most of his out-door property, consisting of hay, straw, hurdles, &c., had becn'set fire to and consumed in the night. There has been quite a " sensation" created in the gay circles of Paris, by the singular beauty of the y o ,:ingest daughter of Lord and Lady Canterbury. Though only I," years of age, she was the "observed of all observers ;" no less the glass of fashion than the mould of form, at the several dis tinguished balls that have been given there during their stay. The admiration would certainly have turned an older head. It was remarked as a curious and flattering distinction, that the entrees of the last and the present season in Paris which bad excited most attention, were those of the eldest aid youngest daughters of Lad' Canterbury.--Par is Advertiser. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. ,40 - 1 •=t , tA .4. rA - LI • Zbt LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1836. The Ordnance Estimates for 1836-7 have just been printod, and exhibit a saving of 32,6101. as compared with those of last year. This looks well. The principal saving is in the " Extraordinaries." A very excellent measure was brought forward last night in the House of Commons by Lord MORPETH, relative to the Constabulary force of Ireland. His Lordship moved for, and obtained, leave to bring in a Bill for amending and consolidating the laws by which this force is at present regulated, observing that it was similar to that which had passed the House last Session by almost unanimous con sent ; and after detailing the principles of the Bill—for which we refer our readers to our Parliamentary Report— he stated, as one main argument for its necessity, that " without imputing to the Magistrates any political preju dices or motives, it was not too much to say, that they were liable to be influenced by private considerations, such as the wish to provide for friends of their own." This is true to the letter ; and, did his Lordship's proposed measure possess no other recommendation than that of putting an end to a system of constabulary patronage and favouritism, which has so long been the fertile source of misrule in Ire land, he would be abundantly justified in introducing it. But it has other and higher recommendations. It is an earnest of the good intentions of Ministers towards Ireland —a voucher for their sincerity in the cause of justice. Moreover, it has the high sanction in its favour of Orange hostility ; nor do we know that we can praise it more fervently, than when we say that it is honoured with Colonel CONOLLY'S " unmingled disgust." Sir ROBERT PEEL gave a temperate and qualified support to the Bill, for which, no doubt, he will be looked on with more dis trust than ever by the hopeless Orange party. Ireland, however, will not think the worse of him for thus keeping aloof from extreme party faction, and judging of a Bill rather according to its own intrinsic merits, than to the party from which it originated. As regards the House of Lords, they cannot have the same pretext for opposing it that they had last Session. It is quite early enough now. They have plenty of time to deliberate upon it ; and can no longer plead in justification of their opposition, that it has been sent up to them at so late a period, that it is im possible to consider its details with sufficient care. We hope—indeed we confidently expect—that the measure will, this Session, meet with a favourable reception from their Lordships. True, it is likely to be popular in Ireland, and to advance the cause of justice in that distracted country ; true, also, it meets with the support of Mr. O'CoNNELL ; but surely these arc not objections suffi ciently strong to justify their Lordships in throwing it out If they do, then, we sa), let them look to themselves. According to the old witch doctrine—it is easier to raise a storm, than to allay ft. We shall take an early opportunity of noticing at some length the subject of a petition presented in the House of Commons last night by Mr. Re ctor of RMAN CRA ntaWFORD, s igned by the Rev. W. HANCOCK, CIorf in Ireland, on the subject of tithes. The friends of genuine Christianity—and in England they are a numerous body— will learn with sincere pleasure that among the dignitaries of the Irish Church there arc men more intent upon diffusion of the Gospel Spirit — more anxious the to heal the wounds inflicted by to and into lerance upon the great bulk of the Irish p eop l e _ more eager to conform their lives to the maxims of HIM, i n whose eyes riches are a trust for the benefit of the widow and the orphan—than in hoarding up wealth by proscrip_ tions of the peasantry, and in acquiring honours and pre ferments for the indolent and useless members of their own families. The sentiments expressed in the Rev. Mr. ifitticoces petition, are those of a true Christian pastor ; and whatever may be thought of them now, by certain mitred Members of the. Upper House, the day is not dis tant when they will be adopted by the Legislature. The folio.. ',e includes the substance of this document, which will ever remembered as alike honourable to the head reverend Author : and heart of its e -' e rgyman of the Establish &Church) is That petitioner ( 4 - "rent ! r n es the present system of tithe sensible of the injustice . inn v - the abolition of a system appropriation ; and therefor(3 1;4, let: Las' tendet to exeite tie propthees of the people against the bilreh of Engltind. That a determination tut the part of the Legislature to bind this system on the people of Irclarid must perpetuate every evil order which Ireland labours, and place the minister of Christ in a p'o'sitiou alike injurious to themselves and to the interests of religfon. That petitioner desires to tct relleYed from the position of being obliged either to want the means or support for himself and family, and to sacrifice his legal rights, or else to extort themremedies he Conscientiously disapproves of. pietitioner believes the opposition to pay tithes arises frpm their apprOPtiation, and not from their amount—and that if properly appropriatt;fl the interposition of landlords would be untieTen!nry,,ind desires that no part of the tithe property should be absorbed b the landlords. petitioner prays therefore that the State do t?sume tithe and all of Occicsiastical property, id bo." vested in the Corn. missioners of National Alucation for the followirif purposes Ist. To satisfy all existing' Individual claims of of Ec clesiastical Proprietors—after all just deductions have be6V made. Id. To provide for the decent maintenaage of the Protes tant Episcopal Clergy—in Parishes where requited, and in proportion to the extent - of those services. 3d. To provide for the Clergy of every Christian Congre gation whose numbers entitle them to support, and who desire ES state provision. 4th, Th 4 everplus, if any, to be applied to National Education. _ _ _ Never was there taken a more correct view of the effects of the present tithe system in Ireland than is here exhi bited. That system—inseparable from the oppressive measures by which it has been enforced—has done more to preittit the growth of Protestantism in Ireland than all the labours of the filtrst zealous servants of the Vatican. The Church has had no enemy so deadly as the British Parlia ment, the Law Officers of the Crown, and the Orange ascendancy—or ti its Members delight to be called, " the Protestant boys." The frame of mind in which the Catholics have been constantly kept by these contemners of their religion, is such as has ever prevented men from adopting a creed opposed to their own. It was morally im possible that they could recognize in such agents of a per secuting Government, the instruments of divine mercy. They were constantly kept in a state of suffering ; but such suffering only made them cling closer to a creed which they imagined themselves punished for having perilled by reason of their sins. The conduct of the Protestant Clergy con firmed the Catholics in a belief that they were themselves the objects of divine chastisement, rather than of mercy. Judged by its fruit the eccicsiastial tree was evil. Had a course the reverse of what has been so madly followed up in Ireland been adopted when the Reforma tion was first preached there, we question much whether there would have been, at this time of day, a single Ca tholic in the kingdom. And yet, with the experience fur nished by three centuries of persecution before their eyes, many of the Dignitaries of the Irish Church propose to collect their Tithes by Commissions of Rebellion. But the persecuting spirit of the Priesthood has been expelled the House of Commons by the people of England. The Government is no longer the mere tool of the Bench of Bishops. Parliament needs no Prelatical Confessors, to direct it in the course which the Constitution requires it to pursue. We have learned without surprise the freaks of some of these most reve rend personages with respect to the Tithe system in Ire land. We have been confidently assured that they have repeatedly used intimidation in the case of several of the inferior Clergy, who, disgusted with the persecution carried on against the peasantry for tithes, have prayed to be allowed to petition Parliament in favour of the principles laid down by the Reverend Mr. HAN.• COCK. In point of fact the working clergy have never opposed any reform in the Establishment,except when under the coercion of the Bishops. It is the rich lazy in cumbents, who do nothing, or the ambitious Dignitaries—in tent upon elevating the rank of their families by alliances with the Aristocracy, who are perpetually confounding the Gospel of CHRIST with the peasant's pig. We cannot conclude these brief observations without noticing a_compliment unintentionally paid to the Rector of Clontarf by the Learned Recorder for the city of Dublin. When Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD concluded the brief but eloquent speech with which he prefaced the presentation of the Rev. W. HANCOCK'S petition, Mr. SHAW observed, that he had never heard of the Gentleman! Now, there is in this sentence a Volume of praise. Mr. HANCOCK is no Tithe-hunting Parson—no itinerant reviler of Popery—no red-hot Orange Magistrate—no Brunswick Clubbist—or the Learned Recorder would have heard of him— have known him—and have given a voucher for his piety, his learning, his zeal, his wisdom, his repeated mar tyrdoms in the cause of Orangeism, besides a long list of other virtues by right of which he was entitled to the first vacant bishopric. No oration delivered in praise of the many virtues of the Rev. Mr. HANCOCK could raise him so high in our good opinion, as an exemplary Christian priest, as the fact of his being unknown to the bigoted Re corder of Dublin. Mr. WARD alluded last night in the Commons to the present careless mode of taking divisions, and pro posed some judicious resolutions on the subject, which were agreed to without a division. He observed, " all were aware of the inaccuracy of the present lists. One re markable instance occurred last night on a division, when in the list, not less than fifty-seven names were omitted, and his Hon. Friend, the Member for Exeter, was put down as having voted on both sides. Another case oc curred last Session, which implicated a Gallant and Hon. Friend of his, who no longer had a seat in the House. When a division took place on the Impressment of Sea men, there were no less than eleven lists produced, in which he was put down as having voted with the majority, though he was not in the House at all." A system which engen ders absurd blunders like these surely deserves the promptest remedy. We are surprised, therefore, to find Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who must be as familiar with its inconveniences as any man in the House, giving Mr. AV/lan's measure such a cold, qualified, and we m ly even add, reluctant support. In the House of Commons last night,'a very important debate arose on Mr. SHIEL'S motion for a Return of all tithe processes issued out of the Irish Court of Exchequer since the first of August 1834. The " Lay Association' for the oppression of the unfortunate tithe defaulters, found a strenuous advocate in Mr. Serjcant JACKSON. This learned prop of the Irish Church militant could discover nothing out of the usual legal course in a writ of rebel lion, when the subject of it happened to be a Papist, who conscientiously, or from inability, declined to _support the ministers of a creed hostile to his own. It would have been much better for the legal reputation of the learned Serjeant had he remained among his constituents at Bandon, instead of attempting the office of a legal professor i❑ Parlia ment. Mr. O'CoNNELL might well express a wish to know where the Learned Gentleman had left his law. We who know less of Mr. JACKSON than does the Member for Dublin, are only prevented by a respect for the coif from ex pressing it as our opinion, that any person who could have uttered the speech attributed to the Hon. and Learned Member for Bandon could never have had much law to leave behind him. His temerity was, however, amply pu nished. The castigation inflicted upon him by Mr. O'CONNELL and the Irish ATTORNEY-GENERAL will be remembered by him as long as he lives. Nor did the Chief Barons of the Irish Exchequer fare better in this strife, between the just moderation of the Government, and the bigotry of the Orange ascendancy faction. Both the Chief Secretary for Ireland and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denounced the conduct of the Lay Asso ciation, and the Barons of the Irish Exchequer, in issuing Commissions of rebellion against tithe defaulters. We are glad to find the Members of the Government thus prepared to speak out in the face of the country. We are rejoiced to learn, that they have not been parties to those acts of cruelty and oppression of which the Irish peasantry have recently been the victims. The question of agricultural distress was brought before the House of Lords last night, by Lord WyNFono. The Noble and Learned Lord, on this occaaion, omitted the customary formality of an introductory speech—whether because he had nothing to say, or because he thought the motion would speak for itself, we cannot tell—and simply moved for a Committee, in the same words in which the motion was made in the House of Commons, viz.:— " That a Select Committeebe appointed to inquire into the state of agriculture, and into the causes and extent of the dis tress which pressed on some important branches thereof, an d that the C omm it tee s h o uld report their opinion thereon." The motion was, as a matter of course, not opposed by Ministers. Lord MELBOURNE stated, that though the Government could not take the management of the Com mittee upon themselves, there was not a Member of the Administration who would not be most anxious in 1 0 ° . mole the enquiry by every means in his power. The question, the Noble Viscount justly observed, was not one of party, and he trustsd it would not be made so --it was one in which the interests of all classes were deeply con. cerned. Although he could not hold out the hope of app extensive measure of relief to the agriculturists, the intro' duction of the subject into the KING'S Speech,and the nese ° of the Government to the appointment of the Coanit te j: rig would convince them that Minister's sympathised in 61 _1 distresses—distresses which were not confined to the ", culturists of this country, but were largely participate d by those of France and Holland. On the subject of the currency, Lord MELBOURNE repeated the declaration I ngle ill the House of Commons by Lord JoHN Ruseg il "' that the Ministers would on no consideration lend their sanction to y measure that could in the slightest degr ee endanger the prosperity of the country, either by increasing the amount of paper money, or by debasing the coin. Lord ASHBURTON said that he could not conceive 1 0 the Committee could devise any imaginable measure whi ch , could give the agriculturists the relief they sought. Oa' more could they have than a monopoly of the c onsumPt i l of the country ?—and that they now had! to the gr ea specific for agricultural distress, there never was a reater de' lusion than to suppose that that distress would be rel ieved B by tampering with the currency. So far indeed front t"" farmers being benefitted by a depreciation of the currency' they would be the greatest sufferers by such a measure, an its effect would be to reduce the value of the protection which they now enjoy from the Corn Laws, from Os' °I. 655. to 40s. or 455. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER was for a repeal of t" Corn Law, which he thought acted injuriously on the i ll ; terests of the community, as all monopolies do, while i t Zia confessedly failed in the object for which it was enacted namely, the keeping up of prices. Lord WINCHILSEA could not be brought to acknowledge that he agreed in the resolution passed at the first Meetiogs of the Grand Central Agricultural Association , " Thad prices must either be raised to burdens, or burdens lowere to prices." The Noble Lord did not relish the idea of $ spunge. The landed interest, he said, were most desirou s of keeping good faith, but " if they could no longer Pey what was to be done ?" Lord WYNFORD then made a few remarks, after wh ich the CHANCELLOR put the question, which was agreed t° ' and the Committee appointed. We are compelled, by the 'pressure of Parliamentarysija other matters, to defer several articles till to-morrow. j We see, by the Vote Paper of thin morning, that of Stanley is occupying himself with the private business , the County of Lancaster, having taken charge, last 0 1 5 °4 of the Preston and Longridge Railway Bill. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Friday, 21- P. l St SIR,—Up to this hour there has been no foreign arrff 6 the General Post Offic. Mails due :- 2 French. 2 Flanders. 1 Dutch. 1 Lisbon. Your's nbediently, COWIE AND SON, Foreign Newspaper Office' THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLO O . 4 No foreign mails have arrived as yet. The mails due l two French, two Ostend, and a Dutch mail. We hav e , ni letters from Singapore to 7th Nov., and Cape c f Good 11(i r to 23d Dec. THE FUNDS. s Ira Consols opened at the closing prices of yesterday- 94 1 2 0; the Account; same for Money; Exchequer Bills, 11 oc jg, India Bonds, 35; Bank Stock, 216 . 21721-; India of 253+ 2561. In the Foreign market prices are stationary at the 6 9111 quotations of yesterday. Spanish Active Bonds , 47i Portuguese, 83 84; Three per Cents, 324- 33 ; Mexican, 361 37-1-; Dutch Two-an-a-li:'11 I n Cents., 55i 531 ; C,llllo 3 : ne ` f / a ti By accounts from the Downs this morning, it apr that the violence of the gale caused a number of vesse part with their anchors. Lloyd's books exhibit a numbe r losses, with many vessels driven on s h ore on t h e coast, aur-n - the stormy weather. ZiALF-PA S T T 1 013 7 00 Within this half hour the Coxol market has receded .r 911 3 for the Account to 91f selleo. HALF-PAST 004' To the pre sen t ti me we d o not h ear o f the arrival of op , Foreign mail s or E xpress f rom P ar i s ; co nsequently We c li g, tinue in the same dull state as in the early part of the mo rn n• Some trifling alteration h as t a ken place in t h e price of tio cols—they have r ece d e d f rom 91± to 91+ s for t the owing Ac e° do owing to some money sales having been effected, an:l not W en ch rumour of an American vessel having been detained in . 1 F r i o!s port, to which not the least credit is given. Excheque: • 19 21 • India Bonds 3 5 ; Bank Stock 217 ; India Stock 2;;;., In the Foreign Market Spanish Active are 47, 1 48; :0; tuguese, 83i; Three per Cents., 531; Colombian, Mexican, 36± 37; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents, 551_,1ib The mania disposition to deal in Shares still continues, " an improvement. THREE O'CLOO Consols fer the Account, 91* SIR ROBERT GRAIIAM.—A paragraph has a t te peared in several Papers, stating that Sir Robert Grahams by retired Baron o f th e Exchequer, had last weer taken the 0 ;0, before the Chi e f J us ti ce to qualify him to take part in tbef ceedings of the Central Criminal Court, and adding tha_on, was now in his 87th year. Whether the venerable Judg e u t pe templates this renewal of his judicial labours is more than can say; but this we know, that his age is not 87, but 9J• ,he On the demise of his daughter, Lady Sidmouthf Lo, whole of th e l an d e d es t a tes of the late Lord Stowell will Ph , to Lord Encombe, the grandson and heir of hi,s brothe r, Earl of Eldon. tl) r The young and wealthy Lord Ward has rec e " been entered of Christ Church, Oxford. t he ALmAcK's.---The grand saloon and ball roctul , e pt tea room, retiring rooms, &c., will undergo re-embellie l lot and decoration, previously to the commencement of the PL series of b a ll s , w hi c h, it is now su pp o sed, will not take P." till after Easter. Although Stranraer has no concern, as yet, in t h ! a I s formation of k railroads, the inhabitants are busily engag e improvements that will affect favourably, should all keep both th e i mme di ate an d t h e f ar f uture. With a bay so beau tp- 0 0 laving the very walls of the town, land-locked for mile s : o d both sid es , a ff or di ng water - way to a ll parts o f B r itain / - 1 .0 Ireland, it is no t sur p r i s i ng t h at t h e i r attent i on , i n the P o ( instance, should be directed to the port, and the extensi °P its shipping. The Relief Presbytery of Glasgow have sent or d r° to Campbclton, to " cut off" f rom their communion th e 1` gentlemen, whose names a re in th e i n t er dict along Filth Smith's. DEATH OF AN INFANT.—EXTRAORD• CASE. —Last evening an inquest, which had been adi eu Sio from Monday night, was held at Guy' s Hospital, before Payne, the City Coroner, on vi e w o f th e body of Sullivan, aged one year and seven months, whose mother custody on the charge of having murdered him, by scaldi n g After hearing some additio na l ev id ence , t h e Coroner sueen" ei e , up, and said it a pp eare d to hi m t h at there was not ev iden t, sufficiently conclusi v e t o warrant t h e J ury in return i ng 3 vets diet of wilful mur d er aga i nst the mother, and if they f'd of that opini on , th ey cou ld , i f not sat i sf i ed as to t h e c ause ea death, com e t o suc h a conc l us i on as wou ld l eave t h e ca se op o f for furth er i nvest i gat i on b e f ore a M ag i strate. F our teen r , the Jurym en out o f s i xteen t h en returne d t h e f o ll o wing l e d diet, " Th e d ecease d came to hi s d ea th by d r i n ki n g sca ld, to water, but how it got to it the Jury have not been ab' e learn." DYETISEMENT. SILVER WATC t IR ES TWO GUINEAS EA a, An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of them vrarl? ll- $6 and of various sizes, may he selected from, for the above pO r ee t ' c li , T. Cox SAVOR Y'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and maker, 47, Cornhill, London. of N.B. A • uhlet, containing - ' ice s p'-' pamt- „outaining a detailed list of the pr.v 'late, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, Sze. may be had gratis 818 Tll. rs On the 16th inst., at Lilburn Tower, Northumberland, the 11 of IL J. W. Collingwood, of a son. AR. On the 18th inst., at S t. Mary' R s, IE B D r Re f yanstone-square, the, a, John Bathurst Schoenb erg, Chaplain in Ordinary to thePing' t of Margaret Mary, youngest (laughter of Robert Ashworth, Br van stone- square. tO On the 17th inst., A. M. Gillan, Esq., surgeon, Edinburg Miss Rowatt, of Kilkivan, Argyleshire. On the 18th inst., at Brixton Church, William Spencer , We of the Inner Temple, to Georgiana Madelina, only hi of Lieut.-Col. 11. Suth er l an d , o f S toc k we ll , Surrey. child t Gor ge On the 18th inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, the Rev. Lea, M.A., of Wolverley, Worcestershire, to Sophia, youeo daughter of the lion. Mr. Baron Gurney. DIED, of On th e Bth o f D ecem b er , age d 59 , Wi ll i am Thomson, r -4 1; itt he Isl an d o f S t. Ch r i stop h er , many years Registrar o f Slav that islan he d. On t 17th inst., at Camberwell, Mr. William Robarts, yen aged 76. 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